[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1815 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1815

    To amend the Public Health Service Act to include occupational 
 therapists as behavioral and mental health professionals for purposes 
                 of the National Health Service Corps.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            December 12 (legislative day, December 11), 2013

  Mr. Begich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Public Health Service Act to include occupational 
 therapists as behavioral and mental health professionals for purposes 
                 of the National Health Service Corps.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Occupational Therapy in Mental 
Health Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUDING OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS AS BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL 
              HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR PURPOSES OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH 
              SERVICE CORPS.

    Section 331(a)(1)(E)(i) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
254d(a)(1)(E)(i)) is amended by inserting ``occupational therapists,'' 
after ``psychiatric nurse specialists,''.
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